| A recurrence of rats chewing on infant children, reported in newspapers 100 years ago, happened this week in West Virginia.
A Moundsville mother has been arrested after her infant's fingers were chewed by a rat, according to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department.
23-year-old Jessica Williamson has been charged with child neglect resulting in injury.
Marshall Deputy Kevin Cecil says the 6-month-old boy had several chewed-up fingers on his right hand.
The arrest was made following a proceeding of the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
Williamson was arraigned by Magistrate David Buzzard, who set bond at $5,000.
In 1897 at Richardson, Calhoun County, there was reported the horrible death of an infant. The newspaper said a Mrs. Tanner went to bed with her twin babies, about two weeks old.
"Being in rather delicate health and having lost considerable sleep she slept very soundly. On awaking she found one of the babies dead, having been killed by rats during the night."
"The rats had eaten the nose and one cheek off and one eye out, besides otherwise horribly mutilating the child," said the report.
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